The Alright, guys version of US History: Recent Episodes
Andrew Meyer
Mr. Meyer is absent Thursday, September 28: use this virtual Mr. Meyer to help you do what you need to have done for US History.
This episode is for your work on the Scopes Monkey trial, if you chose that to learn about!
This podcast is for your work on the Harlem Renaissance, if that is the assignment you chose!
If you chose to learn about American imperialism in Panama and have the Panama assignment post, this podcast is for you!
If you chose to learn about American imperialism in Mexico and have the Mexico assignment post, this podcast is for you!
If you chose to learn about American imperialism in China and have the China assignment post, this podcast is for you!
If you chose to learn about American imperialism in the Philippines and have the Philippines assignment post, this podcast is for you!
If you chose to learn about American imperialism in Cuba and have the Cuba assignment post, this podcast is for you!
If you chose to learn about American imperialism in Hawaii and have the Hawaii assignment post, this podcast is for you!
If you chose to learn about the civil rights movement and legislation, this is the podcast for you!
Today we learn about the different ways minorities have tried to gain acceptance in America, and how that is going.
Today we wrap up WWII, do some peer reviews of dossier #1, and look at American policies on communism!
Today we wrap up experiencing WWII as it happens and examine the different possibilities there were to end WWII in the Pacific!
If you chose to learn about American imperialism in Panama and have the Panama assignment post, this podcast is for you!
If you chose to learn about American imperialism in Mexico and have the Mexico assignment post, this podcast is for you!
If you chose to learn about American imperialism in China and have the China assignment post, this podcast is for you!
If you chose to learn about American imperialism in the Philippines and have the Philippines assignment post, this podcast is for you!
If you chose to learn about American imperialism in Cuba and have the Cuba assignment post, this podcast is for you!
If you chose to learn about American imperialism in Hawaii and have the Hawaii assignment post, this podcast is for you!
Today, we examine the attitudes behind imperialism with the poem The White Man's Burden, and then we start looking at workers strikes during the time of robber barons with the Homestead strike!
Today, we begin a new unit covering the basics of industry, and the basics of imperialism!
Today we self-assess some of the synthesis we are trying in the paper, then complete your rough draft of the paper.
Mr. Meyer is back, and you are submitting what you have for research logs and preliminary thesis by the end of the class period!
Today, we begin our new unit on immigration by looking at the 2nd and 3rd waves of immigration!
Today, we look at preparing for your Unit 5 socratic seminar during your class period on Monday or Tuesday!
Today we look at the idea of reparations, and look at the KKK and what it tried to do during Reconstruction!
Today, we look at how effective different pieces of legislation for Reconstruction were, and what sharecropping is! Plus, Mr. Meyer does an ad read about candy canes!
Today, we start diving into the different ideas for how to reconstruct the country after the Civil War!
Today we wrap up the Civil War, and start looking ahead to how to reconstruct the country after the Civil War.
Today, we go through how to research and make presentations about the topics of the Civil War you chose, and then Mr. Meyer offers a Thanksgiving gift.
Today we get ourselves up to the Civil War, and then work on a SWFEBE on the impact of slavery in the US!
Today we examine how members of Congress were literally beating each other almost to death because of the issue of slavery, and we compare the Republican party of the present day to the Republican party when it was formed in the 1850s!
Today, Mr. Meyer leaves you breadcrumbs to learn more about the Underground Railroad so that you can make a guide for using the Underground Railroad!
Today, Mr. Meyer leaves you breadcrumbs to examine slave rebellions in US History so that you can make a guide for how to have a successful slave rebellion!
Today we look at the political compromises that occurred over slavery as the US expanded west #ManifestDestiny
Today we look at the constitutionality of the American system, states' rights, and then Mr. Meyer gets on a soapbox for a couple of minutes about the election.
Today we look at the Industrial Revolution, sectionalism, and the American system, as they relate to slavery in the United States.
Today we examine our unit on slavery by examining.....wait for it......slavery, especially how it got justified! (who would've thought!)
Today we do a quick recap of Manifest Destiny, and look at Texas becoming independent from Mexico!
Today we examine the importance of maps, an interesting image, and the idea of Manifest Destiny!
Today you are doing a peer review of Journal #3 and resubmitting your work for Journal #3!
Today we look at the proposed policies for dealing with natives in your Source Reading!
Today, we go into the backstory of why Alexander Hamilton and John Adams did not like each other even though they agreed on many things and were part of the same political party!
Today we have some updates, and look at your assignment Source Reading #2, where Hamilton and Jefferson are complaining to their daddy, George Washington.
Today we are looking at what we think Hamilton's vision of America is, and then looking at the Constitution!
Mr. Meyer walks you through some highlights of your step-by-step guide to ending a unit in US History.
Today we are examining how the colonists won the Revolutionary War, and the forms of government they tried to create to make the new country of America work.
Today, Mr. Meyer gets real a little bit about what is going on with racial injustice in our country today, and how it connects to the beginning of American history.
Today, Mr. Meyer tells you a story, of why the colonists wanted to break away from Great Britain. Then, we examine Thomas Paine's Common Sense.
Today, we examine the idea of American Exceptionalism, and examine a speech from John Winthrop, which has the roots of American Exceptionalism.
Mr. Meyer walks you through the broad strokes of why your grade is what it is for Source Reading #1.
Today we dig into one part of doing research, and also looking at native people's before European contact.
Today start with some updates for the week, and then we start getting into the content of US History with the Columbian exchange, and you get to pretend you are in a cooking competition!
Today we examine a checklist for getting through Mr. Meyer's class, and do our first online discussion assignment!
Lots of information today, but you can handle it! We cover what you need to do for Mr. Meyer's class each day, how to do it, what the context of our study of US History is, and some procedural things for Thursday and Friday!
We begin our US History class with Mr. Meyer being excited to start the year, and walking you through what you need to do to introduce yourself to him.
We begin our last unit today, examining how minorities have tried to gain acceptance in America: from Cesar Chavez, to Martin Luther King Jr., to Malcolm X, to the Childish Gambino.
Whichever day you are not doing your socratic seminar, we are ending the Cold War and this unit!
Today we look at communism, why the US has generally opposed communism, and what the US did about communism after WWII.
We have some general announcements, we're gonna watch a video and chat, and we're gonna fill out a short survey!
Today you get to decide whether you would drop the atomic bomb on Japan to end WWII, or make a different choice to end the war!
We talk about what you are doing Tuesday and Thursday, and your projects from last week.
Today we celebrate the joy of finishing a unit and look at what we are going to do to end the unit.
In this episode, we start with a corrido and then Mr. Meyer goes off on a storytime about the Great Depression and trying to explain the stock market.
Today we look at all the news that came down in the state of Arizona on Monday, and we look at the era known as Prohibition.
Today Mr. Meyer has some bones to pick with some of you, and then we create urban dictionary entries for the terminology people used in the 1920's!
Today in US History we learn some vocabulary that hopefully doesn't describe anyone you know, and then we tackle women's suffrage and flappers.
Today, Mr. Meyer is taking you through some general updates, and then we are learning about the Scopes Monkey Trial. Yay!
This is Mr. Meyer's narration for you of what you should be doing for class on Thursday, March 19, and Friday, March 20.
It was a bit awkward for Mr. Meyer, but oh well!